Sister of teen who went overboard cruise ship blasts ‘misinformation’

The sister of a 19-year-old Washington man who went overboard a Royal Caribbean cruise ship earlier this week is speaking out against “misinformation” amid her pleas for answers and desperate attempts to maintain hope in light of her family’s tragedy.

Savannah Ropich lashed out on Saturday in a Facebook post to a woman who claimed she was also a passenger aboard the Royal Caribbean’s Wonder of the Seas and said that the captain announced that video showed the young man jumping overboard.

“She has no clue what is going on with the whereabouts of my brother and his situation,” Ropich, who lives in Texas, said in the post.

The woman, who is on TikTok as @brunausaflorida_official, also claimed a sick passenger had to be dropped off in the Cayman Islands during the search for Sigmund Ropich, 19, who tumbled off the boat off the coast of Cuba Tuesday.

She could not immediately be reached by The Post.

The U.S. Coast Guard, which is set to investigate once the ship returns to the U.S., did not immediately respond to inquiries from The Post.

Savannah Ropich urged people to report the woman, and said she would soon delete the post about the woman altogether so as to focus on her brother.

She has been blocking “rude and insensitive” comments for days as she posts photos and stories about her brother’s disappearance in an effort to encourage authorities to continue searching for him.

Her brother, a college student, was on the cruise with friends when he fell overboard from the world’s largest cruise ship. It was only the second day of a 7-day cruise out of Port Canaveral, Florida.

The crew spent about three hours combing the waters after the ship turned around and retraced its route, an industry site reported, but it turned up nothing.

Savannah Ropich and other family members are pleading for answers and updates, she has said.

“He is a son, a big and a little brother, a cousin, an uncle, a nephew, a friend, a homie, a classmate, a co-worker, a neighbor!!!” the desperate sister wrote in another post.

In a statement to The Post, Royal Caribbean said it is working closely with local authorities but added, “Out of respect for the family, we will not share further details about this unfortunate event.”